Systemic educational advice

‘Every systemic constellation contributes to 

insight, growth and living from your source, from who you already truly are.

Then it is a celebration. This is true for a school as well.’

- Hilde Van Bulck

What can systemic educational advice mean for your school?

A word of explanation

You will certainly have noticed that complicated situations tend to drag on when we fall back on our old, familiar ways of solving them. Those ways have definitely proved their worth, but the awareness within our education is growing to a new level. A different approach is presenting itself. 

When we cannot get a problem situation moving, it is because something remains hidden under the radar and wants to be seen, and because we keep using the same methods to solve it. A number of principles that help a school to function well have lost their balance and are asking for a new equilibrium. That is a favourable development. It helps the school and everyone in it to grow. A systemic view can bring clarity here.

Where do you put your focus?

The school year is slowly winding down. The holidays are beckoning temptingly. In the minds of the leadership team, next school year is already whispering to them, sometimes softly, sometimes a little more insistently. There are still quite a few uncertain factors waiting for an answer before the planning can be completed. The better the planning, the more easily next school year will start and run. 

What about the unfinished themes of this school year? The needs. The things that are going wrong. Are you hoping they will quietly disappear? Do you have a plan of approach for them? Where does your focus go? To the things you are trying to avoid and want to be rid of in the new school year? Have you ever noticed what effect that has? 
What happens when you shift your focus to where you want to go? To the results you wish to achieve? Any idea what effect that has? 
People tend to slip back time and again into stories about what they do not want or what has gone wrong. For next school year to run effectively, you would do best to shift your attention to where you want to go. It is actually logical. Imagine you are planning a trip to the south of France and you keep looking back at where you have come from. Chances are you will not even be able to set off. 

Shifting your focus leads to a few important steps. Five steps that bring clarity to shifting the focus.

1. What are the focus questions and the mirror questions for next school year?
2. Which goals and challenges will we achieve together? 
3. Is the ‘why we are doing this’ clear? 
4. Has everyone been asked the question of commitment? 
5. Which way of working will we use? 

Could your school find meaning in shifting the focus in certain areas? Then be sure to read the testimonial further down. For a no-obligation conversation, you can reach me via the contact details.

‘Expressing your gratitude moves you, quite naturally,

as if on a deeper level you know who you are.

This is true for the school and school life as well.’

- Hilde Van Bulck

What you can expect

You are guided by someone who worked in education for years and has many years of experience in exploring systemic processes. The problem that wants to find a solution is placed within the larger whole of the school. Getting to work with systemic advice can help your school move forward by leaps and bounds. The systemic view is a process that is unique to each school in terms of time, content, way of working and the number of people involved. 

• Working with two pillars: Teaching by being and systemic insights.
• Creating a safe school climate.
• Setting a movement of restoration in motion.
• Activating awareness of being present (Teaching by being).
• Self-inquiry - individual and collective.
• Exploring mirroring and projections.
• Not a solution, but setting movement in motion. 
• Developing the willingness of leadership, the willingness of teachers, the willingness to learn. 
• Moving and refocusing the camera lens. 
• The importance of group formation. 
• The importance of the place. 
• The importance of the school’s history. 
• Exploring goals.
• Low-stimulus policy and teaching.

‘We do not yet see even a fraction of the knowledge that is present in our great unconscious field.

The playing field of information is infinite.

The solutions that emerge from it reach beyond our imagination.

Imagine being able to use them for your school.’

- Hilde Van Bulck

For whom?

For schools that, from a contemporary awareness, ...

• Want to shape their policy.
• Want to reach a higher level with their team.
• Want to get difficult themes moving.
• Want to simplify their inner organisation.
• Want to develop a new educational vision.
• Want to raise the awareness of how the school functions.
• Want to turn a crisis into strength and new opportunities. 

Why is systemic advice so beneficial for head teachers?

• You are heard and seen in your concerns. 
• You can bounce ideas around on a different level.
• You feel supported. 
• You receive the nourishment you were missing, and it lifts you up.
• You can implement the advice in your work straight away.
• You experience its effect as soon as you apply it. 
• You tap into new sources of strength. 
• Your horizon broadens.
• Your inner room to move increases.
• You feel that your work at school becomes lighter.

What others say...

‘I can sum up the programme that my staff and I followed for our school in four words: innovative, growth, oxygen and insight.
The educational constellations with the team were very valuable. We learnt to look from a different angle. We gained insights we had not found before, at least not with our heads. My teachers stand more firmly in their roles. They dare to express themselves more and to open things up for discussion. More and more, we challenge one another in an engaged way. 
Through the individual coaching, I have come to stand more firmly and gained more clarity. I am more aware of my ‘being’ in my role as head teacher. I thought I did not judge, but I did. That has greatly diminished. I feel more understanding without being ‘soft’. Functioning at school has become easier for me and I can apply more tools. I share my experiences with my colleagues and tell them how we have grown.

Thank you,
for all the insights you gave me,
for the trust and the discretion,
for your clear language,
for the engaged challenging,
for helping me believe in my own feelings again.
Thank you for believing in me.’

Kristel De Ranter, primary school head teacher

Did you know that...?

• All my talks, workshops, transformation programmes and systemic constellations can be applied at every level of a school: for new or seasoned teachers, for new or seasoned head teachers, for new or seasoned (care) coördinators, ...?
• My work is always tailored to the group taking part?
• I draw on a wealth of experience in education?
• I have tested everything I teach in practice? 
• A great many education professionals have gone before you and have applied what they learnt?
• I want to help make education lighter?
• You can always have a no-obligation exploratory conversation about a programme in your school?